Mislawchuk gives it his all in men’s triathlon at Paris 2024 – Team Canada

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After battling accidents for a number of years, simply making it to the beginning line of the lads’s triathlon at Paris 2024 was an achievement for Tyler Mislawchuk.

Not solely did the Oak Bluff, Manitoba athlete compete, he was in medal competition for a lot of the race, ending a powerful ninth on a sizzling day in Paris.

“For me, I did every thing I may during the last three years,” an emotional Mislawchuk mentioned after the race. “I’ve come again from an Achilles tear, concussion, crashes… you identify it, I had it within the final three years. To face on the beginning line wholesome and provides it my all… I’m happy with the trouble. You need extra, however that’s all I had in me.”

Mislawchuk is a three-time Olympian however the ninth-place end is his finest ever at a Video games. In actual fact, it’s the first time a Canadian has damaged into the highest 10 of an Olympic triathlon since Simon Whitfield’s silver at Beijing 2008. Mislawchuk completed fifteenth at each Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. It was in Tokyo the place he partially tore his Achilles tendon throughout the person race after experiencing some ache throughout coaching the week prior, forcing him to withdraw from the combined relay.  

“For me, it’s every thing I had,” mentioned Mislawchuk. “Third Olympics. Final Olympics, you understand, with damage and all of the stuff that occurred, it was loads of ‘what if.’”

Mislawchuk mentioned there aren’t any “what ifs” this time round.

“It was completely every thing. I vomited 10 occasions after the race. Bought sizzling within the final laps.”

The lads’s triathlon was initially scheduled to happen on Tuesday however the occasion was postponed a day resulting from water situations within the Seine. Mislawchuk sat twentieth after the 1500m swim portion and stayed in the identical spot after the 40km bike experience.

It was within the 10km run the place the 29-year-old started to make his transfer. Mislawchuk shortly moved as much as tenth, then fifth after which into medal place. However the Canadian didn’t fairly have sufficient left within the tank to keep up a spot on the rostrum.

Mislawchuk mentioned he was mentally trying on the highway race in increments of 20 seconds. On the 6km mark, he mentioned he began to expire of gasoline.

“The final 4km felt like an eternity on the market however I simply stored repeating, ‘The remainder of your life. Let’s go. That is it.’”

After the race, Mislawchuk was reflective about his journey thus far – not simply the accidents he’s overcome, however the truth that somebody from small city Manitoba made it to the Olympic Video games as a triathlete.

“I wish to thank my supporters world wide. With out them I wouldn’t be right here and only a child from Winnipeg, Manitoba – or particularly Oak Bluff, the place it’s minus 50. I’m right here on the summer season Olympics. I got here fourth within the Manitoba Video games. I couldn’t even get on the rostrum there. Fifteen years later, I’m combating for a medal on the Olympics.”

It was fairly a end to the triathlon with Nice Britain’s Alex Yee passing New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde within the closing lap. Leo Bergere of France received the bronze.

Charles Paquet was the one different Canadian competing within the males’s triathlon, ending a stable thirteenth. Earlier within the morning, Emy Legault competed within the girls’s occasion and completed thirty fifth.